The publishing platform built for creators. Keep 97.5% of every sale. Earn royalties on every resale — automatically, forever. Your work, your rights, your income.
Novels, essays, poetry, journalism. Publish without a gatekeeper. Earn on every sale and every resale — for as long as your work circulates.
Fiction & nonfictionStop giving your life's work to publishers who charge students hundreds and pay you pennies. Set your own price. Own your catalogue.
Textbooks & researchCourses, guides, playbooks, documentation. Sell knowledge that compounds. Earn royalties as your work spreads through your industry.
Guides & coursesUniversities, research labs, think tanks. Distribute with permanent verifiable provenance and built-in licensing enforced by contract.
Reports & papersPublishing on Knowdly is straightforward. Encryption, payments, royalties, ownership, and resale are handled by infrastructure that runs automatically and that nobody can shut down.
Your file is encrypted in your browser using AES-256 before it leaves your device. The encrypted content is stored permanently on Arweave. Set your price, your royalty rate, and publish.
Readers pay in USDC via their Stellar wallet. You receive 97.5% of the purchase price instantly. A Soroban smart contract mints an NFT to the reader's wallet — permanent, on-chain proof of ownership.
Ownership is verified on-chain before the decryption key is released. Content decrypts in the reader's browser. Supports PDF, EPUB, and TXT on any device, any browser.
When a reader resells their copy on the marketplace, the smart contract enforces your royalty automatically. You set the rate when you publish. It applies to every transfer, forever, with no bypass.
Readers can lend their owned copy to another wallet for a set period. The smart contract enforces the return and transfers access automatically. Coming in the next release.
Every purchase mints an NFT ownership token to the reader's wallet. Not a licence. Not a subscription. A book they own permanently and can do with as they choose.
List your copy on the Knowdly marketplace. When it sells, you receive payment and ownership transfers to the buyer. The smart contract handles everything — no middleman, no approval required.
Every time a copy changes hands, the creator receives their royalty automatically. The rate is set at publication and enforced by the Soroban contract on every future transfer.
Knowdly takes a 2.5% platform fee. Everything else is yours — paid directly to your wallet the moment a reader purchases. No invoicing, no waiting, no minimums.
You set your royalty rate when you publish. The smart contract enforces it on every transfer automatically. Your income compounds as your work circulates through the marketplace.
A small per-upload publishing fee covers your permanent Arweave storage. No subscriptions required — pay once, published forever. Serial creators can subscribe for unlimited uploads.
| Feature | Traditional publishers | Amazon KDP | Substack | Knowdly ✦ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creator revenue share | 10–15% | 35–70% | 90% | 97.5% |
| Resale royalties | ✗ None | ✗ None | ✗ None | ✓ Forever |
| Reader resale marketplace | ✗ None | ✗ None | ✗ None | ✓ Built in |
| Content permanently stored | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ On Arweave |
| Reader truly owns their copy | Physical only | ✗ Licence only | ✗ | ✓ NFT ownership |
| Platform can remove content | ✗ Yes | ✗ Yes | ✗ Yes | ✓ Impossible |
| Payment speed | Quarterly | Monthly | Monthly | Instant |
Academic authors selling directly to students at a fraction of publisher prices, while earning more per copy than any traditional deal offers.
Investigative pieces, essay collections, and reported narratives that deserve permanence. Not a link that goes dead when a publication folds.
Novels, novellas, short story collections. Readers who love your work can resell their copy — and you earn every time it changes hands.
Academic papers and technical reports with permanent verifiable provenance. Know exactly who has access to your findings.
How-to guides, developer documentation, and operational playbooks. Sell the knowledge that took years to accumulate.
Curricula, lesson plans, and supplementary materials. Educators can finally monetise the teaching materials they spend thousands of hours creating.
Built on permanent, trustless infrastructure. Your content survives regardless of what happens to any company — including us.
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